Peter Baker

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has recently launched Living Well for Longer, a ‘call to action’ to cut avoidable premature deaths in England. But Mr Hunt signally failed to mention a key high-risk group – men. Men are much more likely than women to die young (42% of all male deaths are under 75 compared to 26% of female) and to die from avoidable causes (65% of all avoidable deaths are male). This is a significant and tragic omission. Read the rest of this entry »